This recipe couldn’t be more flavorful or easy! It’s the perfect weeknight meal! Easy Lemon Herb Chicken… the aroma will make your mouth water, but the flavor will convince you to make it again!
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How to Make Perfect Parmesan Kale Chips
For years the only vegetable my husband ate was green beans. Then, one day, one amazing day, he decided to try kale. BUT, there were very clear specifications about how he would try kale…as chips. Needless to say, I set out to make the crunchiest, most flavorful kale chips he could imagine. With a little cooking smarts and intense motivation to wow his palate, I won him over.
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Slow Cooker Steel Cut Oats Recipe Blueprint
There are few things as satisfying as walking into the kitchen to wonderful aromas wafting through the air and delicious food ready to be enjoyed…without having to do any work! The slow cooker may not have a fancy name or glamorous appearance, but this kitchen tool is a busy woman’s indispensable sous chef. It does all the cooking and gives you all the glory!
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10 Ways to Sweeten and Flavor Yogurt WITHOUT Added or Artificial Sugars
Yogurt has an abundance of beneficial nutrients including protein, calcium, vitamin D, B12, magnesium, and potassium. It is also a very easy way to consume probiotics, healthy “bugs” that thrive in the gastrointestinal system.
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Broccoli Hummus Snack Bites
Healthy is not a size…it’s a lifestyle.
How often do you choose a veggie at snack time? Vegetables may not be the first thing we think to grab at 4pm, but these savory broccoli hummus snack bites might just change your mind! We are encouraged to consume a minimum of 5 servings of colorful vegetables per day, but we should not limit them to only dinner and lunch! Slightly crunchy on the outside and reminiscent of creamy hummus on the inside, these broccoli bites are much more exciting than the traditional veggies and hummus snack. And, they are super simple to make!
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4 Kid Friendly Breakfast Ideas- Delicious Eats for Your Growing Tot
Sometimes breakfast is boring. The reality is that many of us eat the same foods every morning now that we did 3 months ago, 6 months ago and even a year ago. And, while we may be completely fine with that, if we are giving our kids the same foods every morning, we are missing out on a significant opportunity to invite more exposure to a variety of foods.
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Quinoa Edamame Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette
Several years ago, when working in a traditional job, I packed the same lunch almost every day. While predictable does equal easy in many ways, it did get a bit boring and monotonous. But after cleaning up the kitchen from dinner every night, prepping and packing lunch for the next day wasn’t (and still isn’t) very appealing. Agree?
But this inspired me to begin thinking a bit more outside the box as to how I could turn leftovers into a completely different meal.
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Honey Parmesan Roasted Acorn Squash
Acorn squash is one of more than a dozen winter squash varieties and like the name indicates, it is a large replica of those oak tree acorns that pepper the ground during the fall and winter. Quite possibly you have passed by these cute green and orange gourds a time or two at your grocery store or farmer’s market. It has a delicate squash flavor with slightly sweet attributes and boasts a whopping 9 grams of fiber per 1 cup serving.
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Roasted Roma Tomatoes with Feta and Basil
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. –Julia Child
Vegetables have an amazing array of robust flavors, but just like cooking a piece of meat to the proper temperature, different vegetables shine with different preparation or cooking techniques.
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Roasted Vegetables Recipe Blueprint
CONFESSION: Roasting is how I won over my brussel sprout hating parents. Yes, it was sly, but I accept full credit. While home from college visiting my family, I decided to make roasted brussel sprouts and carrots for my parents who had some intense, emotional dislike for these baby cabbages. They had memories, bad memories of ‘dead,’ smelly sprouts permeating their house when they were a kid. My parents were skeptical, but I made them curious enough to try their first bite in over 30 years!